Update: Cigar Smoking World Championship 2017 Tournament Schedule

The Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) has released its 2017 tour schedule. It has also launched its own website exclusively dedicated to this tournament: cswcworld.com.

As in previous years, the CSWC’s grand finale will take place in Split, Croatia over the first weekend in September (September 1-3, 2017). Along with other participants, all winners of the international qualifying trials will compete against one another to smoke the Macanudo Inspirado Mareva as slowly as possible. The qualifiers for Lithuania and Macedonia have already taken place, but there are more than 20 individual country competitions to go.

His journalistic career began in 1979 as a freelancer for German-language newspapers in the US, and later for Austrian media including Die Wochenpresse and Das Wirtschaftsblatt. For ten years he also produced programs for over 60 radio stations around the world. In 1994, Reinhold C. Widmayer devoted himself to all things cigar, publishing technical articles in cigar magazines. He began working for Cigar Journal in 2001 and became editor-in-chief in 2005; under his auspices the journal has established itself as the world’s leading cigar magazine.